The last Five years - The Next Ten Minutes video free download

Miss vonEekelen

This is probably the most beautifull song ever written.

Ashley Akaeze

When he says "for the next ten lifetimes." I die a little inside. This is the most genuine and authentic emotion that I've heard from Jamie's character in the entire show. To be able to experience the culmination of their relationship put to music so delicately and climatically is so incredible.

iammroneoftheguys

7 minutes well spent listening to this...Well done...........

Buffy Summers

I'm crying

Jenna Chapa

i saw this show last year at the Virginia State Thespian Conference, and fell absolutely in love. I CAN NOT STOP LISTENING TO IT.

Felicia Taylor

I've never actually seen this play, but I'm in love with the music. It's the story of my life in a lot of ways. 

Jonathan Mousset

6 people don't have anyone to share their lives with. 

Craig Davis

I love it when people post things like "I dislike the guy singing. He doesn't have a very smooth voice, it's to rough." ...That's Norbert Leo Butz...2 Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical, 2 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actor in a Musical...Plus 4 other nominations...How's your career going? Go crawl back under your rock and sing show tunes in your bedroom.

Kalle Sorbo

Jason Robert brown wrote. The single greatest musical. To Greece the stage in the past two decades. It's gorgeous and musically one of the most influential scores to modern musical theatre composition.

Josh Lewis

"I want to be your wife" BUM BUM "I want to bear your child" BUM BUM. My favourite bit, so tremendous 

Adam Jones

I'm was a theatre major in college and this is probably my favorite musical theatre song of all time. I have wanted it to be my wedding song since I saw this show when I was a junior in High School which would be difficult since I'm gay, but we could alway rewrite the song a little bit. Still though if two of my friends who are musically gifted sang this as a gift during my wedding ceremony that would be amazing.

SaintHaHaLOLZ

She was seven.

Uche Eke

*The Last Five Years - Jason Robert Brown*Introduced to me this week by the rather brilliant Tom Beech, musical director extraordinaire at Sensatori Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, this is the engaging (and apparently based on upon real life) story of a couple (the playwright and his now ex) falling in and out of love as told by both parties juxtaposed in opposition, her story from the end to the beginning, his from the beginning to the end. Anyone who has been in love will identify with either character at more than one point over the hour or so this beautifully tense and realistically poignant portrayal. Musical theatre in general has rarely interested me, but I was transfixed listening to this entire play. This song is the only one where there is a harmony line between the two main characters. At the beginning you hear his answers to the questions she asks at the end (in keeping with the mirrored timelines of the narrative). 

Jake Stamatis

Anna Kendrick :) and she was on broadway before she did movies so that still works haha

ferallemur

See, I could never do that. It's so beautiful, and so romantic, but I could never separate it from the plot of the show. When I hear this song, it feels tragic and sad. I wouldn't want that sense of impending doom hanging over my wedding.

Nc P

just perfect... 3

claireodactyl

I feel...like crying.

Michael Chu

“The Next Ten Minutes” is the most important song in The Last Five Years.It is also, thank *god*, one of the best, if not THE best. I have two songs that, as a pair, I rank slightly above it, but just barely. I have been known to rank the first verse of this song as one of the most perfect pieces of songwriting I’ve ever encountered, so when I say that it’s good and important, trust that it’s about all I can do not to just pound on the keyboard and say “LISTEN TO IT, IT’S SO GOOD, IT’S SO GOOD, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD FIND A WAY TO UNDERSTAND THE WAY I DO HOW SPECIAL THIS SONG IS.”Really, the entire musical has been building to this moment. Once we understand the basic conceit of the musical (two storylines going in opposite directions, chronologically), we understand that at some point, those two storylines are going to converge, before splitting up again. Foolish indeed would be the writer who comes up with that structure and doesn’t take that opportunity to do something.Well, Jason Robert Brown did something. He wrote this song. And he nailed it to the wall. Even the title is letting you know to sit up and pay attention. It’s a musical called “The Last Five Years”, so when you come across a song called “The Next Ten Minutes”, you know it’s special.When I’m trying to get people interested in the show, this is the song I end up playing, and I wish to god I could play something else because the full impact is only understood when it comes on the heels of everything before it. But on the other hand, it perfectly captures every beautiful, tragic, insightful thing about the show in one song that, at seven minutes and thirty-one seconds, is far, far too short. The scene is simple. Jamie and Cathy are on a boat on the lake in Central Park. In the stage show, Jamie is facing towards a Cathy who isn’t there, much like many of the numbers previous. They’re still out of time from each other. He’s dressed nicely, and is visibly nervous. The music is ... perfect.The music is *perfect*.Jason Robert Brown is a pianist (he has stated many times that he grew up idolizing Billy Joel), so much of his music tends to be piano-based. But this song makes incredible use of the strings. Not since “Still Hurting” so many songs ago have the strings been deployed to such stirring effect. If you listen to them, it sound precisely like gentle waves lapping on the shore.*No, that one’s Jerry Seinfeld**That one’s John Lennon, there*Musical conversation, but only one side of it. The best apartments in New York City are the ones overlooking Central Park. You can see them from the lake. Jamie is pointing them out to Cathy, telling her where the celebrities live.*No, the Dakota**The San Remo is up a few blocks*The Dakota and the San Remo are both luxurious apartment buildings in the area.*Have you been inside the Museum?**We should go**Meet the dinosaurs*He’s talking about the Museum of Natural History, obviously. All of these lyrics are just idle chatter about where they are. No rhymes, perfectly natural speaking rhythms. Norbert using his amazing powers of speak-singing to fantastic effect.*Cathy...*I’m so obsessed with everything else about this song that I barely have time to notice the perfect quiver in Norbert’s voice when he says her name, but it’s amazing. Jamie takes a ring out of his pocket. He’s proposing marriage on a lake in Central Park. It’s so romantic that I want to die, and it’s nothing compared to the verse that’s coming.There are so many love songs out there, it’s almost impossible to find an original sentiment. Everything has been done and redone over and over again, and there’s just only so many ways to write a love song.I think this might just be a wholly original sentiment. I don’t want to interrupt the lyrics with my commentary, so I’m gonna let the first verse stand entirely on it’s own.*Will you share your life with me**For the next ten minutes?**For the next ten minutes**We can handle that**We could watch the waves**We could watch the sky**Or just sit and wait**As the time ticks by**And if we make it till then**Can I ask you again**For another ten?*It’s so simple. It’s the kind of verse that probably took Jason Robert Brown five seconds to write, once he realized what he wanted to say. But it says so much, so perfectly.Marriage is one of those things where there’s so much pressure around the edges of it, because the way we as a culture (and really, as a species) understand it, marriage is a permanent commitment, one of the few truly permanent commitments left in the world.Gone are the lifelong careers that people depend on. Gone is the person who asserts that they will spend the rest of their life in a single place. Nobody really believes you anymore when you say “I am going to X for the rest of my life.” The world is too transitory for declarations of lifelong commitment to ring true, anymore.And yet, while divorce is now far from unexpected, we still (most of us) understand that when you say to someone “I want to marry you”, you are saying “I want to be with you forever.” It’s weighty stuff. And Jamie’s proposal is, at first, a tongue-in-cheek way around that.Jamie lives for the moment. He’s discovered that he doesn’t know anything about what the future will bring, because he thought he had a sort of plan, and then his life took off like a rocket in a way he couldn’t possibly imagine. Jamie doesn’t know about the future.But he knows about now. The next ten minutes. They can handle that. And because he’s willing to start small, and focus on what he knows about the right here and the right now, it actually rings far truer than most over-the-top expressions of romance might.All of this is heightened by how transitory we *already know* their relationship is. We’ve been watching them drift through life and time, separate from each other. We know that they break apart in terrible fashion, and even when they’ve been singing about how much they love each other, they’ve been doing it alone.All Jamie wants, is to be with Cathy. Just to be with her. They don’t have to do anything in particular, or anything at all. It doesn’t have to be forever, just ten minutes would be enough. But in the world of this musical, ten minutes together seems practically impossible.*And if you in turn agree**To the next ten minutes**And the next ten minutes**Till the morning comes**Then just holding you**Might compel me to**Ask you for more*But as Jamie sings, Cathy walks out of the shadows.*There are so many lives I want to share with you**I will never be complete until I do*And at the words “I do,” she finally sits in front of him. For the first time in the entire musical, they are making direct eye contact. And he slips the ring onto her finger.*I'm not always on time**Please don't expect that from me**I will be late**But if you can just wait**I will make it eventually*Cathy’s verse is, at first, quite a head-scratcher. The music is noticeably different, and it’s not her saying “Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!”But just as Jamie was being painfully honest about his uncertainty for the future, Cathy is being hesitant here. And while she appears on the surface to be talking about a minor character flaw, the fact that she’s choosing this moment to speak up about this tells us that this is a big deal to her.She isn’t perfect. She will never *be* perfect. Things will go wrong. Not just her career, and how she’s taking so much longer than Jamie is to become accomplished or successful, but *everything*. *Not like it's in my control**Not like I'm proud of the fact**But anything other than being exactly on time**I can do*But if Jamie’s can accept her for her faults, for being imperfect, than she’ll do everything and anything in her power to make it work.*I don't know why people run**I don't know why things fall through**I don't know how anybody survives in this life**Without someone like you*Cathy has had some bad experiences in life and love (which are, of course, covered later). And I would argue that she has a bit of a hard time learning meaningful lessons from those experiences, primarily because she has a tendency to try to hide herself from blame as much as possible. But right now, she’s so in love with Jamie, she can barely understand why bad things might happen in the first place.*I could protect and preserve**I could say no and goodbye**But why, Jamie, why?*And she has no interest in protecting herself. She’s ready to give Jamie everything. And as the music builds and builds, we finally hear her ultimate answer to Jamie’s question about the next ten minutes.*I want to be your wife**I want to bear your child*Arguably, Jamie’s proposal being for “the next ten minutes” was him asking her hand in marriage in a clever, vulnerable fashion, but I also stand by my viewpoint that part of the reason he phrased it just that way is to highlight how little he does, or even *can*, think about the future. Whereas I think that ultimately, Cathy thinks about nothing *but* the future.*I want to die**Knowing I**Had a long, full life in your arms**That I can do**Forever, with you*This line says so much about Cathy. It’s a heady mix of wonderfully romantic, weirdly macabre, and crazy high expectations. I mean, no pressure, or anything.But the wonderful thing about this moment is that, for the first and only time in the entire musical, the two characters feel exactly the same way about each other, and it’s also the only time they are ever singing directly to each other.Jamie: *Will you share your life with me?*Cathy: *Forever*Jamie: *For the next ten lifetimes?*Cathy: *Forever, Jamie*The hesitancy is gone. These are two people, very deeply in love, perfectly in tune. He asks, and she answers immediately. Yes, yes, a thousand times. And then they are speaking as one. And as they stand up and walk away from the boat, and it’s clear that we are seeing them make their vows to each other as they get married.I can think of so many reasons to be cynical about their relationship, but I can’t when I’m listening to this song. The music, the joy in their voices, the catharsis of finally, *finally* hearing them sing together, of talking to each other, no barriers keeping them apart, it’s too much for me. I am literally getting teary just looking at these words.Jamie: *For a million summers*Both: *Till the world explodes**Till there’s no one left**Who has ever known us apart*Perfect.Jamie: *There are so many dreams**I need to see with you*Cathy: *There are so many years**I need to be with you*Jamie: *I will never be complete*Cathy: *I will never be alive*Jamie: *I will never change the world**Until I do*There are actually very few rhymes in this song. It’s not about being clever or sing-songy. It’s about honesty and being willing to open yourself up entirely to another person. It’s about love.Cathy: *I do*Jamie: *I do*Cathy: *I do*Both: *I do*And after they exchange their vows, in front of audiences both imaginary and real, they kiss.And the musical theme that plays at the very, VERY beginning of the show comes back. They continue to kiss, then slowly transition into what is their first dance together as man and wife, while this lovely, melancholy piece plays on a violin, not a piano like we heard at the beginning of “Still Hurting”. And they dance, and the smile, and they cling to each other, and for a moment, for one shining, glorious moment, they are happy, together.And then the soft, rolling triplets return. The gentle waves, lapping on the shore of the lake in Central Park. And the joy and catharsis you are feeling in your heart starts to turn into lead in your stomach, because you know what’s about to happen.The music continues to play. They continue to circle around each other, clinging desperately to each other, and you will for them to be able to do it forever.But they can’t. They walk back to the boat, and Cathy sits down, alone.Cathy: *Is that one John Lennon?*“*No, that one’s Jerry Seinfeld. That one’s John Lennon, there.*” The words echo in our head. We’ve heard this conversation before.Cathy: *That's the San Remo*“*No, the Dakota. The San Remo is up a few blocks.*” Our hearts cry out the answer.Cathy: *Isn't that the Museum?*Sherie Rene Scott gives this wonderful little laugh here, and it breaks my heart into a million goddamn pieces, because she’s happy, but it’s a happiness born out of ignorance. The two characters have officially passed by each other. The moment, their one moment where they were truly together as one is gone, and the two of them will only grow further and further apart.*Can we go see the dinosaurs?*

Madi Feder

Counting down to this movie.

gothedistancecuz

Can't wait for the movie to come out. Jermey Jordan is playing Jamie, he's gonna be epic as shit!!!!! Not really as excited for Katey though I forget her name but she played the bitchy chick in Pitch Perfect. But never the less its still gonna be an amazing movie. At least they picked Broadway oriented people instead of 2 people who have no love ir respect for the stage (:

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